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Re: BOF: Format-Flowed and Non-Western Charsets

2002-03-19 02:10:31

Pardon my naïvete, but what would be the point of using f=f with e.g.
Thai?

For English I understand the motivation: f=f permits paragraph-oriented
text with good backward compatibility and little visual impact.

But for something like Thai (with >400 characters IIRC) it's not like
that.

Thinking about it, the set of languages for which a spaceless f=f would be
useful seems to be just the languages that:

 - fit inside 128 characters
 - have a significant tradition of 8bit text/plain e-mail
 - do not use spaces much

Are there even languages like that?

--Arnt